Running various amounts of my mileage barefoot since July 2004. Now that it's mainstream, I am no longer crazy, but maybe I was among the visionaries.

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Chuck Your Insoles!

I often post how I have had plenty of barefoot running success, as well as running-in-general success, by combining barefoot and shod running in my training. I don't know why I didn't think of this sooner. I have previously traded the stock insole in running shoes for flatter ones when I train or race in shoes "to get closer to the ground". But for the last couple of weeks I have simply chucked the insoles all together. Slip-lasted running shoes are working fine this way and they are allowing my feet to work more like they do when barefoot.